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Your community news Issue 16
April 2010
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ANZAC Services 2010
Woolworths in Leura
The Katoomba Dawn Service will be held at 6am at the Community War Memorial in Lurline Street (at the front of the RSL Club), followed by the Gunfire Breakfast at the RSL Club. There will also a wreath laying service at the Blue Mountains ANZAC Memorial Hospital at 9pm and a 10am service at Blue Mountains Council Chambers. The main march starts at 11am in Katoomba Street, opposite the Carrington and proceeds to the Community War Memorial in Lurline Street, for a service and wreath laying ceremony. An ANZAC Church service will be held on the 18th April at 9am at the Uniting Church in Katoomba Street, Katoomba. All welcome. The Wentworth Falls ANZAC service is at 6.40am at the Station Street War Memorial with breakfast served at the Grandview Hotel.
A full-sized Woolworths supermarket has been approved by BMCC for the former Colless Foods site in The Mall at Leura, where the hole in the ground is. It will have underground parking for 89 vehicles, accessed from the village car park. Four speciality shops will be constructed at the front of the supermarket to preserve the unique streetscape of The Mall. For more details, visit www.theecho.net.au
‘Lest We Forget’
Illustrated Journals workshops The first introductory Illustrated Journals workshop for Autumn will be held at the National Trust “Everglades House and Gardens” Leura, with illustrator Faye Wilson and writer and poet Craig Billingham, 11 or 15 May. Bookings close April 16. Phone 4784 1938 or 0413 923 931. www.illustratedjournalworkshops.com
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What’s on
First Saturday of the month from 1pm Board Games at Edison’s Lab. Ph 0402 773 000 April 5, 12, 19 & 26 at 9.30am CWA at the CWA Hall in Leura every Monday Monday April 12 Zonta Club dinner meeting at the Grandview Hotel in Wentworth Falls. Ph 0407 823 897 Friday April 16 from 9am Blue Mountains Hospital Auxiliary Annual Fete in the Hospital Car Park Saturday April 18 from 9.30am-3.30pm Leura Art & Craft Expo at the Uniting Church Monday April 19 at 10.30am Blackheath CWA fashion parade at the Uniting Church Hall, Blackheath. See page 5 Wednesday April 21 at 1.30pm Red Cross Games Afternoon at the Uniting Church Hall in Leura. Entry $10. Ph 4782 4344 Wednesday April 21 Ladies Probus Club of the Upper Blue Mountains at the Leura Golf Club. See page 6 Wednesday April 21 from 10.30am-12.30pm Male Carers & Men’s Group Workshop at Katoomba Men’s Shed Sunday April 25 at 2.30pm Radio Plays at the Mountain Heritage. Ph 4782 2155 for bookings For more information on local events, visit www.theecho.net.au
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